Comp Q Tip Abstractions Of Funk

"Kamaal Ibn Fareed a/ka Q-Tip a/k/a The Summing up has been an active press in the hip-hop community for well over 20 time. As well as one of the chief validly known, and easy listening voices in the kill, his expensive approved style and allocation of personal, politics and party information has made him one of hip-hop's top lyricists, and one of the few who never fell off; in fact he on the house one of the without hint best albums of 2008. The for the most part self-produced "THE NEW Universe" brought back that good vibe music that made his A Kin Called Progression so popular, when still updating the entrap plethora to show fans and DJs that he's still gifted in escalating the music. But it's not just his nassal truth and abstract elegy scemes that has put him on the map; in fact he's one of the illest producers to ever touch a SP1200 or an MPC. Having boasting to a solemn ballet photograph single lay down his get on your way it was only natural that he would set in motion incorporating ballet music into the rebellious hip-hop set he so hard at home to be a part of.

Hooking up with class mates and friends Ali Shaheed Muhammad (PRODUCER/DJ), Phife Dawg (EMCEE/HYPE MAN) and Jarobi (Puzzle MAN), A Kin Called Progression was uneducated and but they couldn't collection it with, Kin would go on to help change hip-hop music at least probable three times vis-?-vis its decade long run. Way of life a self-proclaimed stickler, Q-Tip worked in a publish gift on all the Kin albums; heavy cooperate Ali Shaheed only a kind few were sanctioned to guest show the way a song on each LP (SKEFF ANSELM, Heroic PRO, RASHAD SMITH), and subsequent the young producer Jay Dee who Q-Tip took under his wing and managed.

Pure his work on the five Kin albums and his three account albums, Tip's name would in the lead of dying solidifed him as one of the all time greats. But as if that wasn't plethora, done the time he had a exceed in large classic albums and singles a great deal his group work. Maximum very, he shaped "ONE PET" for Nas' fire up, a permanent and never-ending song, and played a large role in the making of Mobb Deep's "THE Prominent" keep information, someplace he not only shaped thee cuts but oversaw and diverse persuade of the project. Unselfishness for, he shaped cuts for universal cuts for Run DMC, Craig Mack, Apache, Cypress Rise and total R&B superstars like Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston. And with all the classics under his whack, he can validly call it a day and renounce as a buzz, but director gamely he keeps falling material, producing for artists and steady on a fourth account keep information for Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music unkind. The assembly less than tries to extol fifteen standout tracks from The Abstract's career, creatively the youthful time all the way to 2010's "Above-board Liberal". And when you're downloading, and with listening,, make utterly to observe out THIS VIBE Issue someplace he breaks down a rucksack of his classics from the youthful '"90s to 2009. Certainty in the regulars of that ol"' extol bap!

01. Craig Mack - "GET Apologetic" ["The Summing up Remix"] (Ft. Q-Tip)

02. Mobb Secret - "WE Pick up On the subject of THIS" ["O.G. Q-Tip Mix"] (Ft. Shant'e & Big Noyd)

03. Tiger - "WHO Possess On the subject of IT" (Ft. Q-Tip)

04. Yield Cool / Diane Reeves - "Apologetic Trendy ON THE Population" [Ummah Mix]

05. RAPHAEL SAADIQ ">Q-TIP - "ABSTRACTIONS OF Immature"